1909 in film
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Template:Year topic navigation Template:Yearsinfilm The year 1909 in film involved some significant events.
Events
- Carl Laemmle founds the Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Selig Polyscope Company establish the first permanent film studio in Los Angeles in Edendale, Los Angeles.
- The New York Motion Picture Company is founded and also open a film studio in Edendale. The studio is later used by Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and then Mascot Pictures, which become part of Republic Pictures.
- February 4 – The Paris Film Congress begins, an attempt by leading European producers to form a cartel similar to that of the Motion Picture Patents Company in the United States.
- February 26 – Kinemacolor is shown to the public for the first time in the Palace Theatre in London.<ref name=":2">Template:Cite book</ref>
- March 16 – Charles Urban forms the Natural Color Kinematograph Company.
- May 12 – Mr. Flip is released, the first film to feature someone being hit in the face with a pie.
- May 23 – The first news cinema, The Daily Bioscope, opens in London.
- June 17 – In the Sultan's Power, directed by Francis Boggs, is the first film ever completely made in Los Angeles, California.
- October 25 – IMP release their first film, Hiawatha, based on the 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.<ref name=Hiawatha>Template:Cite web</ref>
- November 5 - A Nature Movie by Arthur C. Pillsbury using film to explore the wonders of Yosemite. This first showing was for John Muir, a friend and associate of Pillsbury. Included was footage of the Hetch Hetchy. This film was then shown for the 1910 season at the Pillsbury Studio in Yosemite, advertised using postcards.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- December 2 – Matsunosuke Onoe, who will become the first superstar of Japanese cinema, appears in his first film, Goban Tadanobu.
- December 20 – James Joyce opens the Volta Cinematograph, the first cinema in Dublin.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Notable films
Films produced in the United States unless stated otherwise
A
- The Airship Destroyer, directed by Walter R. Booth – (GB)
- At the Altar, directed by D. W. Griffith
C
- A Corner in Wheat, directed by D. W. Griffith
- The Country Doctor, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford
- The Cowboy Millionaire, directed by Francis Boggs and Otis Turner, starring Tom Mix
- The Cricket on the Hearth, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Owen Moore, based on the 1845 novella by Charles Dickens
- The Curtain Pole, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mack Sennett and Florence Lawrence
D
- The Diabolic Tenant (Le Locataire diabolique), directed by and starring Georges Méliès<ref name="Kinnard 1995">Kinnard, Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. Template:ISBN. Page 28.</ref> – (France)
- A Drunkard's Reformation, directed by D. W. Griffith
E
- Edgar Allen Poe, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Herbert Yost
G
- The Golden Louis, directed by D. W. Griffith
H
- The Hessian Renegades, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Owen Moore
L
- Lady Helen's Escapade, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Florence Lawrence
- The Life of Moses , directed by J. Stuart Blackton
- The Lonely Villa, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Florence Lawrence and Mary Pickford
M
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Charles Kent and J. Stuart Blackton, based on the 16th-century play by William Shakespeare
- Moscow Clad in Snow, directed by Joseph-Louis Mundwiller – (France)
- Mr. Flip, directed by Broncho Billy Anderson, starring Ben Turpin
N
- Nero, or the Fall of Rome (Nerone, o la caduta di Roma), directed by Luigi Maggi and Arturo Ambrosio – (Italy)
O
- Oliver Twist, directed by J. Stuart Blackton, based on the 1838 novel by Charles Dickens<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
P
- Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy, directed by J. Stuart Blackton
R
- The Red Man's View, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Owen Moore
- Resurrection, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Florence Lawrence, based on the 1899 novel by Leo Tolstoy
S
- Slippery Jim (Pickpock ne craint pas les entraves), directed by Segundo de Chomón – (France)
- The Spider and the Butterfly (Le papillon fantastique) (incomplete), directed by and starring Georges Méliès – (France)
T
- Theodore Roosevelt in Africa, documentary film directed by Cherry Kearton
- Those Awful Hats, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mack Sennett
- A Trap for Santa Claus, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Henry B. Walthall
V
- The Voice of the Violin, directed by D. W. Griffith
W
- Whimsical Illusions (Les Illusions fantaisistes), directed by and starring Georges Méliès – (France)
Births
- January 1 – Dana Andrews, actor (died 1992)
- January 3 – Victor Borge, musician, actor (died 2000)
- January 8 - Willy Millowitsch, actor (died 1999)
- January 15 – Gene Krupa, musician, actor (died 1973)
- January 22 – Ann Sothern, actress (died 2001)
- January 24 – Ann Todd, actress (died 1993)
- January 29 – Alan Marshal, actor (died 1961)
- February 2 – Frank Albertson, actor (died 1964)
- February 6 – Aino Talvi, Estonian actress (d. 1992)
- February 9
- Carmen Miranda, singer, actress (died 1955)
- Heather Angel, actress (died 1986)
- February 11
- Max Baer – boxer, actor (died 1959)
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz – director, screenwriter, producer (died 1993)
- February 16
- Hugh Beaumont, actor, director, writer (died 1982)
- Jeffrey Lynn, actor (died 1995)
- March 19 – Louis Hayward, actor (died 1995)
- March 26 – Chips Rafferty, actor (died 1971)
- April 4 – Bobby Connelly, child actor (died 1922)
- April 22– Ralph Byrd, actor (died 1952)
- April 29 – Tom Ewell, actor (died 1994)
- May 4 – Howard Da Silva, actor, director (died 1986)
- May 15 – James Mason, actor (died 1984)
- May 16 – Margaret Sullavan, actress (died 1960)
- May 30 – Benny Goodman, musician, actor (died 1986)
- June 7 – Jessica Tandy, actress (died 1994)
- June 8 – Robert Carson, actor (died 1979)
- June 14 – Burl Ives, actor (died 1995)
- June 20 – Errol Flynn, actor (died 1959)
- June 26- Wolfgang Reitherman, director, producer, animator (died 1985)
- July 1 – Madge Evans, actress (died 1981)
- July 11
- Irene Hervey, actress (died 1998)
- John 'Dusty' King, actor, singer (died 1987)
- July 12 – Curly Joe DeRita, actor (died 1993)
- July 23 – Helen Martin, American actress (died 2000)
- July 24 - Sydney Bromley, English character actor (died 1987)
- August 25
- Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (died 1993)
- Michael Rennie, actor (died 1971)
- August 26 – Jim Davis, American actor (died 1981)
- September 7 – Elia Kazan, director (died 2003)
- September 27 - Amerigo Tot, Hungarian actor (died 1984)
- October 6 – Robert Carson, screenwriter (died 1983)
- October 20 – Carla Laemmle, actress (died 2014)
- October 29 – Douglass Montgomery, actor (died 1966)
- November 11 – Robert Ryan, actor (died 1973)
- November 26 – Frances Dee, actress (died 2004)
- December 9 – Douglas Fairbanks Jr., actor (died 2000)
- December 12 – Karen Morley, actress (died 2003)
- December 20 – Diane Ellis, actress (died 1930)
- December 22 - Patricia Hayes, English character actress (died 1998)
Deaths
- January 27 – Benoît-Constant Coquelin, actor, Cyrano de Bergerac (born 1841)
- September 4 – Clyde Fitch, author & playwright whose works have been adapted into films. (born 1865)
Film debuts
- Fatty Arbuckle – Ben's Kid (as Roscoe Arbuckle)
- Ethel Clayton – Justified (short)
- Dolores Costello (as a child) – A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Helene Costello (as a child) – Les Misérables (Part I) (short)
- Marie Dressler – Marie Dressler (short)
- Francis Ford – The Stolen Wireless
- Annette Kellerman – The Bride of Lammermoor: A Tragedy of Bonnie Scotland
- James Kirkwood – The Heart of an Outlaw (short)
- Florence La Badie – The Politician's Love Story
- Tom Mix – The Cowboy Millionaire
- Mary Pickford – Mrs. Jones Entertains
- Billy Quirk – The Heart of an Outlaw
- William A. Russell – Tag Day (short)
- William Stowell – The Cowboy Millionaire
- Blanche Sweet – A Man with Three Wives
- Rose Tapley – The Way of the Cross (short)
- Clara Kimball Young – Washington Under the American Flag (short)